Starterwiz

I was surfing E-Bay, doing a bit of Christmas shopping, and I found "Amused to Death" on vinyl in NM condition, so I decided to buy myself a present....
Damn if it didn't go up to $376 Cndn, and I ran outa time to bid higher GRRRR!
So now I got the itch.....someone know someone with one that I can go steal?

I did manage to scoop a copy of the 1986 Ottawa Floyd concert from "Stoned City" Germany, and since I was in VERY fine form at that show, I thought it's be cool to listen to what it REALLY sounded like. With a bit of luck, I'll get it before my B-day.

SQ Civic

iTrader: (3)

seems like a huge contradiction... Posting something about vinyl in the 'sound quality' section...

I realize the atmosphere vinyl reproduces for the listener, and if thats your thing, great... but in the SQ forum??? [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

vinyl is known for a lot of things, but SQ isn't one of them. [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

regards, Mark

[ December 12, 2005, 07:51 PM: Message edited by: SQ Civic ]

Starterwiz

You guys have obviously never heard good vinyl, on a Linn deck, SME arm through a Goldring cartridge (with the obligatory 40 hours of set-up and tweakin time, of course [img]smile.gif[/img] ).
Take your square bits and bytes, smooth em all you want....you'll never get up to 40khz+ out of em.

Disc's mastered from the original analogue tapes, are never quite the same when tranfered to the digital domain.

I'll put my table up against the best CD player you got, and aside from the odd tick or pop, the sound off of vinyl is better on the old stuff than any digitally re-mastered cd I've ever tried.

That being said, I'll stipulate that the average Canadian vinyl pressing sucks, and almost every turntable you've ever heard will have the stylus at the wrong vertical tracking angle (it changes from disc to disc) but when the're set up right......pure bliss.

So yes...this thread belongs in SQ.

SQ Civic

iTrader: (3)

I was implying the sound vinyl has on 'most' every player that 'most' people would get the chance to listen to...

not some state of the art setup, perfectly tuned. just your average "hi-fi". Should have been clearer..

Mark

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i think you need to get a good home set up then
[img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img] try a linn setup [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

SQ Civic

iTrader: (3)

i think you need to get a good home set up then
[img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img] try a linn setup [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]I doubt very highly it would be something I would get any real use out of... I understand that the sampling rate of a cd to some (if not many) audiophiles is perceived as being too low to convey the true emotions, or feeling that a record can, but for me a cd, a DVD-A disc is just so much more usefull than having my music across different formats.

I realized a few minutes after my original post, that it wasn't clear enough, or that what I was meaning in my head and what actually got posted were two different things.

I might be putting my foot farther in my mouth with this one, but couldn't the Vinyl vs CD comparison, be as personal as the Tube Amplifier vs Digital Amplifier debate???

Mark

SQ Civic

iTrader: (3)

explain please.

Mark

[ December 12, 2005, 09:18 PM: Message edited by: SQ Civic ]